President Elect Barack H Obama After the Election

Barack Obama or cool hand Barack as someone called him for he always kept his temper when all through the campaign his opponents throw everything they could find at him he rarely turned fire instead he just kept on explaining what he would do if they elected him President of the United States of America. He showed great decision making by first selected a great Campaign staff then Joe Biden for his running mate. He doesn’t seem to me to be progressive enough, but hopefully those in Congress that are can push through some more progressive programs in Health Care and Education. Barack Obama is a strong signal as to how far we have come and he again hopefully take us another step forward, but there will be still a long road ahead for future generations to travel.

Vice-President elect Joseph Biden After the Election

Joe’s weakness is that his mouth works at a faster speed than his mind. He often says the wrong name like Obama when he means McCain, but I can related to that I often call my own kids by the wrong name and Joe once said Television instead of Radio when talking about FDR’s fire side chats. The media ignored Joe during the campaign except when the other side took issue with something he said which only came as Election Day drew near and they were looking for anything to save themselves. They did use his voice in an Ad when he said the new President would be tested within the first six months. They used it as if he meant only Obama, but he meant any new President as the history of former Presidents would confirm. Joe Biden was a very good choice for Vice-President for he been in Washington for 35 years and knows how to get Obama’s programs through Congress

Governor Sarah Palin After the Election

Governor Sarah Palin After the Election

I was astonished when John McCain picked an unknown Governor of Alaska to be his running mate for Vice-President. After hearing her speak at the Republican Convention I thought what the hell is McCain thinking, she has got to be the worst choice in US History. She did appeal to the Republican Right wing base which he had anyway, to some women at first, but the more even they heard her the more she turned them off. Sarah Palin’s lack of knowledge especially for a Governor of a State is astonishing. Sarah’s Father was a Science Teacher, but neither his wife or his daughter believe in Science maybe she say more about the state of our country that someone like can be elected Governor much less Vice-President.

Sen. John McCain After the Election

I Think John was a fine Senator before he got the desire to run for President then he lost his way. John is a Republican, but he did have some good ideas as Senator and was not always on the “Right Side” of an issue, he was for Campaign financing, against the war in Iraq, against torture and in short was a Social Progressive while being a Fiscal Conservative. Once John decided to run for President he was all for the war and wanted nothing less than victory and he had no other ideas and he started talking about his POW story over and over again or just trying to run down his opponent. Just the want of power changed him for the worst so maybe loosing this election might have been the best thing for him. Maybe the old John McCain will come back to Washington.

The Second Presidential Debate

McCain says Obama has never done anything, but everything that is wrong with America is his fault. McCain didn’t bring up Bill Ayers because he knew Obama would be ready for him for a so called war hero he is a real coward. McCain’s answer to the economic upheaval was to claim a mortgage plan that was already in the 700 Dollar Bail out plan and Obama talked about two weeks ago. McCain’s Health care plan is just to give each Taxpayer a 5000 dollar Tax break which would pay for about two months of health care coverage and pay for it by taxing any health care coverage you get from your employer. McCain wants to fight on to “Victory” in Iraq and Afghanistan no matter how long that takes. He also wants to take on Iran as if the American people didn’t have enough of War. McCain’s only mention of education was to say that Obama spent too much on an education bill. McCain agrees with Obama on energy both would spend more on solar, wind, hydroelectric, clean coal, and drill baby drill, but McCain is for giving more to big oil companies while Obama would get America off of oil hopefully in ten years. Obama gets more into detail on what he would do after the bail out in both policing Wall Street and insuring Main Street. Obama’s Health Care Plan is to insure all children and give small business up to 50,000 dollars to pay for health insurance there by helping both employee and employer. Obama’s health care is still not enough, but better than McCain’s no plan. Obama plan for Iraq was said to be surrender not Victory, but is now accepted by both the Bush and Iraqi Governments once again Obama realizes that results not empty words is what is needed. I think Obama won the first two debates and should be elected our next President.

Looking forward without looking backwards?

In the Vice-President debate Gov. Palin said “we that the McCain-Palin Administration would look forward to the future and not backwards to the past”. Now how can you going forward without knowing where you came from when you go to the food store it is because you know it had good food in the past, but you are buying for the future. When you are hiring someone you want to hire you look into their past to know how they will perform in the future.

Obama vs. McCain first Debate

The talking heads Seem to think has long has McCain keeps talking without Pausing that is all he had to do to win the debate. One of the main things that came across to me was that McCain is more pro war than Obama, McCain seems hell bent on going to war with Iran. You would think a man who suffered as a POW after getting himself shot down over North Vietnam would not want others to suffer the same way, but he comes from a military family and that is where his mind set is with the military. Obama seems to give in to the Military complex to much too, but says he is willing to talk to nations like Iran that have a different way of looking at the world than us. Obama’s family history is different than McCain’s so may give him a better view of the customs of the people in different parts of the world and an appreciation of those differences.
McCain also seem more pro business at the expense of the middle and working classes. It was Obama that talked about cutting taxes, relief for people about to lose their homes, and creating jobs here in America instead of shipping jobs overseas. McCain is for the trickle down theory only the money is trickling on China and India with very little on the American workers.
Looking at the decisions that both candidates have made so far McCain picked Sarah Palin to help him push his programs through Congress and Obama picked Joe Biden to help him push his programs. J.F.K picked L.B.J who put the 1964 civil rights laws and the 1965 voting rights laws through Congress so picking the right Vice President is more important than people seem to think.

Who should Vote?

When the American forefather’s were debating not only what type of Government they wanted, but who in the future should decide who their representatives in government should be. Now in their time the late 18th early 19th centuries only the Upper and Middle Class were educated. (Not to be confused with what is considered Middle class today, then it meant someone who owned Property or ran their own business, if you worked for someone else you were Working Class) there was no need to educate working class until the industrialization of the 19th Century caused the need for educated workers. The American forefather’s want only informed voters and feared that uneducated voters would be too easily influenced by others to vote against their interest. Those fears may have been well founded up to now, but with the advent of the internet where anyone can go up on a candidate’s Web site and find out where he or she stands on the issues there is now no good reason to vote for a person because of what they are, but what they stand for. So don’t vote for Obama because he is black or Biden because he is the smartest and most qualified, McCain because he was a POW or Palin because she is a woman.


For more information on the issues see Obama’s web site http://www.barackobama.com and McCain web site http://www.johnmccain.com

Obama vs McCain on recent Supreme Court decision

Obama vs McCain

The Supreme Court recently decided that non-American citizens have the same rights to defend themselves in a court of law as do American citizens. Obama rightly says that this is the right decision and that it helps bring back up the reputation of the United States of America. McCain says that it is the wrong decision that only Americans or people that agree with the American Government should have those rights. He says they may hurt Americans if they are let free and they may or may not, but that has nothing to do with the fact that they are human. You either believe in freedom for all or you really don’t believe in it at all. American will be safer if we help protect the rights of all the people of this world and not make American citizens some how better than anyone else. Obama is right on this issue.

The McCain Ad

McCain Ad

A new McCain ad that says we should be sorry for him because he was a prisoner of War in Vietnam so we should elect him our president. He says he hates war and loves peace that is why he wants to keep the Iraq oil war going for another hundred years. We are suppose to believe that we are now “winning” as if war was like a sporting event where one side wins and the other loses, but in actually reality both sides always loses in both lives and money. We can not afford to be the world’s policeman any longer. We have lost too many poor young people who have sir come to false patriotism or the College trap only to die a “hero”. Now McCain went off to war in ‘Vietnam for the same reasons only he thought that joining the Air force was a safer way than to crawling through the jungle with the workingman’s sons, but he got himself shot down and then captured by people that only wanted to be free of foreigners like him.

Castro Retires and Obama wins the Cheese and Pineapple states

Raul Castro bring "Change to Cuba"

The Baseball cap instead of the

Block Cap of his brother Fidel

Obama may change things in Cuba, but McCain will blow another chance to

improve things for the Cubian people

Looks like Obama vs McCain

McCain = spent taxpayer's money on other countries.

Obama = spent taxpayer's money on America.

What is a debate anyway?

Hillary and Barack point out each other’s weakness and try to put fourth their strong points, now I am just a common old working man, but isn’t that what debates are all about?

Nevada and the Republican South Carolina Primaries

McCain wins South Carolina and Mitt Romney picks up Nevada for the Republicans

Hillary Clinton wins in Nevada, but race with Barack Obama is still close for the Democrats.

The Michigan Vote of Jan 15 2008

Michigan Vote:

Mitt Romney 40%

John McCain 30%

Mike Huckabee 16%

Ron Paul 6%

Frederick Thompson 4%

Rudy Giuliani 3%

Hillary Clinton 55%

Dennis Kucinich 4%

Hillary and Meet the Press

Hillary was on Meet the Press with Tim Russert plowing over very old ground, it was more Histroy than News.

Lets elect a President 2008 as of Jan 10

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/action/conversation/conversation.aspx?sc=1100

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/semr?source=SEM-register-google-obama-search-national

http://www.johnedwards.com/

Lets elect a President 2008 as of Jan 5